[imp] Active Sync junk behavior

Michael J Rubinsky mrubinsk at horde.org
Wed Feb 18 15:50:32 UTC 2015


Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> Quoting Brent <impuser at bitrealm.com>:
>
>> After doing some testing, I've found the following in trying to
>> troubleshoot why I when I try to use the "Move to Junk" option on an IOS
>> device (haven't tried others), it doesn't actually move the message out of
>> the Inbox.
>>
>> What I would want to happen:
>>
>> A message that is chosen as "Move to Junk" gets moved to the folder that
>> I've designated as my "spam mailbox" in Preferences for email using
>> Horde/Imp.
>>
>> What happens instead:
>>
>> The message is moved to a folder called "Junk", with a caveat:
>>
>> If you don't have a folder named "Junk", it will create it and add it to
>> your IMAP folder subscriptions.  No issues here.
>>
>> If you DO have a folder named "Junk", BUT HAVE UNSUBSCRIBED from that
>> folder, Active Sync will attempt to create a folder named "Junk" and it
>> gets an error that the folder already exists.  Not too bad, but then it
>> doesn't add the IMAP folder subscription and doesn't actually move the
>> message since it received an error on the folder create step.
>>
>> End-user workaround:
>>
>> Name your "spam mailbox" Junk and be sure you're subscribed to that folder.
>>
>> Maybe the "Move to Junk" is an IOS thing and the Imp ActiveSync guys can't
>> do anything about the folder that gets chosen as it is all done by the
>> client?
>
> Correct. This is a known "feature" of iOS. Some versions are better  
> able to map the iOS Junk folder to existing Spam-like folder names.  
> That said, we can better handle the case where the folder exists and  
> is not subscribed. Please create a ticket on bugs.horde.org  
> regarding the unsubscribed use-case.

Forget about creating the ticket. We now handle this case more  
gracefully. See:  
https://github.com/horde/horde/commit/1fe7899103dd2eb26c8f83ccd4e5e070935f6b56


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